Party Animals’ New Super Powers Explained

Highlights

• Party Animals gained popularity during the pandemic with its cute characters and hilarious gameplay.
• A new game mode called Smash was introduced, adding super powers or “Pawers” to give players advantages.
• Super versions of Pawers can enhance base stats, improving chances of winning in Smash matches.

During the pandemic, there was a rise in social games as people bonded with friends through them, and one of these titles was Party Animals. Developed by Recreate Games, the adorable PvP game captured people’s hearts with its fuzzy characters and hilarious gameplay that many content creators shared online. An early access version of Party Animals came out in 2020, and was officially released on PC and Xbox three years later, to the delight of many fans.

Party Animals has a number of game modes that let players either duke it out in free-for-all “last man standing” matches or team matches where they protect objectives in the form of giant gummy candies. Party Animals players are also given weapons to hit their opponents unconscious, making it easier to push them off maps, such as ancient ruins with noxious gas and a warship in the middle of the ocean. During the recent Summer Game Fest, Party Animals revealed a new mechanic that will add more chaos and hilarity.

The Party Animals Can Use Super Powers To Fight Now

In its latest trailer, Party Animals revealed that it added super powers, also known as “Pawers” or “Perks,” that give animals certain advantages in matches. This new feature is only available in Smash, a new game mode where players fight to be the last one standing within six rounds, and try to accumulate the most points in the end. At the start of each round, players will choose one Pawer that their animals can use for the whole duration of the game mode.

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There are a total of 50 different Pawers that provide Party Animals players with special movement abilities, unique powers, and the ability to resist certain attacks, among many others. Here are some of the notable ones that players can try out in Party Animals:

• Assassin: Attack Power increases when invisible. Reduced invisibility duration after being hit.
• Bananaman: Immune to banana peels
• Bluebull: Increase stamina
• Bomb Defuser: Immune to bomb effects
• Camouflage: Briefly turn invisible after recovering from being knocked out
• Carnivore: Knocking out enemies restores some stamina
• Crash Landing: When headbutting in midair, surrounding players are launched away
• Electro: When grabbing conscious players for five seconds, an electric shock is delivered
• Fast & Furious: Attack Power increases with movement speed
• Insomnia: Brief immunity to knockouts after recovering from a knockout
• Magnified Boom: Bombs are more powerful
• Quicksilver: Greatly increases running speed. Perk is lost when knocked out.
• Rocket Leap: Double jump
• Spinach Master: At the start of each round, a Canned Spinach will spawn next to players. Canned Spinach is a consumable that makes attacks stronger for a few seconds.
• Wide Awake: Harder to be knocked out
• You Don’t See Me: Briefly turn invisible after staying still for a moment

While playing through Smash rounds, players also get the chance to get “Super” versions of their chosen Pawers, which tune up their base stats. For example, Super Magnified Boom will make bombs even more powerful, while Super Camouflage makes animals invisible for a longer time. These can greatly improve players’ chances of winning Smash matches and make them more interesting as they finish all six rounds.

With Smash being a newer game mode, it still has some limitations, like not supporting local multiplayer and not allowing players to join ongoing Smash maps. In a Dev Log posted on Steam last month, the Party Animals team said it’s still working to refine and update the game mode in the coming months. This could also mean that Pawers can get buffs and nerfs if needed, and perhaps include them in other game modes in the future, even just for a temporary time.